Papers of John Adams, volume 21
The inclosed Volume was lately Sent in to me by a Servant— I have Since heard that the Author of it is in New York.1 The Book exhibits a curious Picture of the Government of Berne and is well worth reading.
I congratulate you on the charming opening of the Spring and heartily wish I was enjoying of it as you are upon a Plantation; out of the hearing of the Din of Politicks and the Rumours of War. This felicity will not fall to my Share I fear before June.
I am sir / with great Regard your humble / servant
RC (DLC:Jefferson Papers); internal address:
“Mr Jefferson”; endorsed: “Adams John.
Phila. Apr. 4. 94. / recd. Apr. 16.”
JA enclosed Jean Jacques Cart’s Lettres . . . à Bernard Demuralt, trésorier du
pays de Vaud, sur le droit public de ce pays, et sur les événemens
actuels, Paris, 1793. Originally from Morges, Switzerland, Cart
(1748–1813) compared the American and Swiss constitutional models. The
author also sent a presentation copy, which is in JA’s
library at MB (
AFC
, 10:302; Myron Luehrs Tripp, Swiss and United States Federal Constitutional
Systems: A Comparative Study, Paris, 1940, p. 21;
Catalogue of JA’s Library
).